The Olympics are in high gear and half-way completed and the team from Ukraine scored another gold medal on Saturday. Olesandr Petriv Ukraine took the medal for the 25 metre rapid fire pistol event, beating the silver placed winner Ralf Schumann of Germany by 0.7 points
Petriv claims that his colleagues think he’s insane because of his complete dedication to the sport, but his gold medal helps him disagree. Petriv usually finds the final of his competitions sticking points and he attributes his success in winning the gold from learning from his past mistakes, allowing him to perform well. This is the first time Petriv has ever gone to the Olympics even though he has been participating in the sport for the last 22 years of his life.
The leader going into the even was Keith Sanderson who ended up in fifth place. American Vincent Hancock won the gold in skeet shooting and then for tie-shooting, firsts for the American team. The world’s number 1 shooter, Georgios Achilleos of Cyprus finished fifth in the skeet shooting pack and Qu Ridong of China ended at sixth after a seven way shoot off tie breaker.
All of the shooting events finished with the men’s free rifle 3-position competition on Sunday, August 18th. You can find more information on the Olympics at this blog: The Armenian Blog
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